completely ignore user

[Celtic_Mad]

I've been looking for a hack like this for quite some time but haven't been able to find one.

The built in ignore hack that comes with vBulletin only allows you to stop viewing the ignored members posts, but say they were the last person to post on a thread, their username still shows up as the last user to post even though they're on your ignore list. I'd like the hack to correct this and if the ignored user was to post a new thread, for the hack to not show this thread to members who have that person on their ignored list.

I'd also like the hack to remove them from the 'Who's Online' list.

In other words, I'd like the hack to completely ignore the user so you don't even know they're there!

It would be really appreciated if someone was to create a hack like this.

Thanks.

[Celtic_Mad]

anyone willing to have a go at this?

cheers

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I doubt this can be done without some extensive extra queries.

[Connector]

Very good idea .. i was looking for this as well and i remember i post it somewhere here :)

[Celtic_Mad]

I doubt this can be done without some extensive extra queries.

Is it a lot of work then?

[bairy]

Assuming normal members can't see other invisible ones, you could say "if user is on my ignore list, mark them invisible".

I have no idea how to do that but that would be my idea.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

The problem is that the information (thread title, poster, etc..) of the last post in a forum/thread for displaying on forumhome or forumdisplay is stored in the forum/thread table respectively.

If you want to display different info depending on the user browsing, it would mean that you must always go read the thread tables to find the last non-ignored post. This would mean a lot of extra queries.

[Celtic_Mad]

Would this not be worth making then?

[sross]

I would use this for one reason, so I am not constantly asked by 100's of people "how can i completely ignore a person, I do not want to see them at all when they are on my ignore list?"

I hope someone makes this, obviously if someone has pissed you off to the point you add them to your ignore list then why would you still want to see their name everywhere? Also for moderating it is a nightmare telling members "add them to your ignore list" it's useless because they always see the persons name and can't help but over ride the ignore function to see what was said. If completely ignoring was an option I could nip countless flame wars in the bud..

[Celtic_Mad]

I would use this for one reason, so I am not constantly asked by 100's of people "how can i completely ignore a person, I do not want to see them at all when they are on my ignore list?"

I hope someone makes this, obviously if someone has pissed you off to the point you add them to your ignore list then why would you still want to see their name everywhere? Also for moderating it is a nightmare telling members "add them to your ignore list" it's useless because they always see the persons name and can't help but over ride the ignore function to see what was said. If completely ignoring was an option I could nip countless flame wars in the bud..

Exactly..to be honest, I don't see the point in having an ignore system if it doesn't do these things.

[Lacie]

A board I'm on has this feature, so it can be done without too much trouble. The owner told me it was something to do with wrapping the postbit, but I know nothing about coding so that doesn't really mean much to me.